NOUN
- Auguste Comte's positivistic philosophy that metaphysics and theology should be replaced by a hierarchy of sciences from mathematics at the base to sociology at the top
How To Use Comtism In A Sentence
- Wiseman, "Free Kirk and other rubbish" pitted against "Comtism, ghastliest of algebraic spectralities. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters
- Comte, he launched his well-known definition of Comtism as Catholicism MINUS Christianity, which involved him in a short controversy with Mr. Congreve (see "The Scientific Aspects of Positivism," "Lay Sermons" page 162), and with another leading Positivist, who sent him a letter through Mr. Darwin. The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley
- Comtism, defined as "Catholicism without Christianity". The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley
- To me it appears the only sensible part of Comtism. Heretics
- Thus arose the distinction between “Comtism,” which was “personal and ephemeral,” and “positivism,” which grew with the times. POSITIVISM IN LATIN AMERICA
- If Comtism had spread the world would have been converted, not by the Comtist philosophy, but by the Heretics
- Since the construction of the Chamber, the religion of Scientism, also known as Neo-Comtism, had grown. Short Story: The Soul Chamber, Part 3
- In Comtism we find the latest development of woman-worship, wherein the The Freethinker's Text Book, Part II. Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History
